South Carolina bench and bar . study of law at Chester in the spring of 1878, underPatterson & Gaston, and entered Vanderbilt University in Sep-tember, 1879, and graduated in the law department there withthe founders medal. He began the practice of law at Chesterin October, 1880, and continued until his election to the benchin February, 1898. He was a Cleveland elector in 1888; wasa member of the constitutional convention in 1895, and was oneof the most influential and best posted members of that distin-guished body. He was elected to the General Assembly of never stood for any other o
South Carolina bench and bar . study of law at Chester in the spring of 1878, underPatterson & Gaston, and entered Vanderbilt University in Sep-tember, 1879, and graduated in the law department there withthe founders medal. He began the practice of law at Chesterin October, 1880, and continued until his election to the benchin February, 1898. He was a Cleveland elector in 1888; wasa member of the constitutional convention in 1895, and was oneof the most influential and best posted members of that distin-guished body. He was elected to the General Assembly of never stood for any other office than those mentioned, andhad no opposition for any of them. On December 21, 1881, Judge Gage was married to Miss JanieGaston, the only daughter of Captain J. Lucius Gaston, who fellat Seven Pines, May 30, 1862, and his wife, Margaret HemphillGaston. Seven children were bom to Judge and Mrs. Judge has been a consistent member of the Methodist Churchfor thirty years, and is one of the best judges on the No. 6—Judge Chas. G. DantzlerNo. 7—Judge John S. WilsonNo. 8—Judge J. C. Klugh Nm .1 .hiKjE J. W. DeVore Nci. 1(1 JriiGE R. O. PURDY JUDGE ROBERT O. PURDY. Robert O. Purdy is a son of James Piirdy, a planter of Law-renceville, Virginia, and was born February 11, 1857, at theplantation near that town. He was prepared for college at thecommon schools and spent two years at the Virginia Agriculturaland Mechanical College, after which he entered upon a businesscareer. He concluded, however, that the law opened a widerfield for his ambitious and active mind, and took up the lawcourse at the University of Virginia, where the leading spiritwas the distinguished Professor Minor, a man who has left hisimpress on the minds of a very large number of the most success-ful lawyers and learned judges of the South. Mr. Purdy distinguished himself at the law school, taking thetwo years course in one, a feat rarely attempted and still morerarely accomplished. He settled
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